Bamboos are economically important plants with innumerable uses and many environmental benefits. Improving the availability of information on bamboos is an important step towards the development of sustainable utilization and conservation for this valuable renewable resource, not only in its natural habitats, but also wherever it is cultivated throughout the world. This site was launched in August 2006, primarily as a means to bring together the growing variety of dispersed online tools and information relating to bamboo identification and naming. It also provided an opportunity to disseminate personal publications produced over a 25 year career as a bamboo specialist, working in Asia and in western botanical gardens. Most of these are accessible here as PDF documents or online links. This anniversary also coincides with the publication of the English-language Flora of China bamboo account, a project in which approximately one third of the world’s bamboos are described, arranged more natural system of genera backed up by results of research into their molecular phylogeny. The emphasis of this site is on woody bamboos of Asian origin, especially those from temperate areas, and their cultivation in Europe & the USA. The initial intention was to write a book, but a website seemed a much more flexible, useful and powerful alternative, which could adapt and develop, and link directly to other developing online information. ... [Information of the supplier]
Today millions of people around the globe are suffering from the severe effects of climate change and environmental disasters. It has never been more imperative than now to utilize the natural solutions we already have – bamboo and rattan. By hosting the first Global Bamboo and Rattan Congress (BARC2018), we seek to provide a platform for south-south and south-south-north cooperation on sustainable development and further develop bamboo and rattan’s role in advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). On 25-27 June 2018, ministers, governments officials, scientists, conservationists, educators, and business leaders will gather together at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, to address these pressing global issues. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Catalogue of New World Grasses (CNWG) is an on-going project led by agrostologists from five institutions to database, using TROPICOS, and link all nomenclature, types, synonymy, current taxonomy, and distribution for grasses occurring from Alaska and Greenland to Tierra del Fuego. This is presented in the context of a new suprageneric classification. The taxonomy accepted by CNWG is derived from contributions by collaborating specialists, or from consultation of literature and specimens by the editors. ... [Information of the supplier]
GrainGenes is a suite of services for the Triticeae and Oat communities, including databases, documents, tools, data files, web sites, announcements, curation, and community assistance. The most powerful searches on GrainGenes are the ones using the direct SQL interface. There are many potentially useful examples on the Quick Queries page. ... [Information of the supplier]
The rice genome is more than a resource for understanding the biology of a single species. It is a window into the structure and function of genes in other crop grasses as well. Using rice as the sequenced reference genome, researchers can identify and understand the relationships among genes, pathways and phenotypes in a wide range of grass species.Extensive work over the past two decades has shown remarkably consistent conservation of gene order within large segments of linkage groups in rice, maize, sorghum, barley, wheat, rye, sugarcane and other agriculturally important grasses. A substantial body of data supports the notion that the rice genome is substantially colinear at both large and short scales with other crop grasses, opening the possibility of using rice synteny relationships to rapidly isolate and characterize homologues in maize, wheat, barley and sorghum. As an information resource, Gramene's purpose is to provide added value to data sets available within the public sector, which will facilitate researchers' ability to understand the rice genome and leverage the rice genomic sequence for identifying and understanding corresponding genes, pathways and phenotypes in other crop grasses. This is achieved by building automated and curated relationships between rice and other cereals for both sequence and biology. ... [Information of the supplier]
GrassBase will ultimately provide an integrated, online view of the World Grass Species databases which have historically been held in two separate downloadable databases. The first step towards this integration has been the generation of nearly 11,000 species descriptons from the DELTA format that they're encoded in. In addition to this the synonymy/nomenclature database now contains links to these species descriptions integrated with searches for the accepted name and synonyms for just over 60,000 grass names. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Manual project had as its original goal publication of a single volume on grasses similar in concept and format to Hitchcock's Manual of Grasses of the United States. In 1999, it combined with the Flora of North America project and agreed to give priority to publishing the two grass volumes needed by that project over preparation of the single volume Manual. The first of the two FNA grass volumes, FNA 25.was published in 2003. The second, FNA 24, will be published early in 2007. The two volumes cover North America north of Mexico. In addition to native species and established introductions, they include many cultivated species, some introductions that failed to become established, and a few weedy species not known from the region but identified by the U.S.D.A. as potential threats to U.S. agriculture. The content of the two FNA volumes is now being reduced to a single volumes that will include descriptions for the tribes and genera plus all the keys, illustrations, and maps in the two FNA volumes. This volume, it is hoped, will prove as useful to today's taxonomists as the Manual of Grasses of the United States used to be. ... [Information of the supplier]
Grasses of Iowa is an on-going project of the Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology Department at Iowa State University designed to provide to a broad audience–the general public and professionals alike–a handy resource for the identification and evaluation of grasses. [Information of the supplier]
GrassWorld is an online information system of the world’s grasses derived from a DELTA dataset. The first version has descriptions to most species in English, German and Spanish and non-morphological information of all genera. A French version will be added next. GrassWorld incorporates all the morphological data of Kew’s GrassBase to which ancillary characters (bibliographic, geographic, references to illustrations, name derivation, cytology, classification, naturalised status) have been added. There are plans to generate GrassBase type generic descriptions using DELTA gesumm. Within the Scratchpad environment there are useful links to Google Scholar, GBIF world maps, NCBI, Wikipedia and image sites. Users are encouraged to notify us of missing or wrong information. Interactive INTKEY sets will be placed on the DELTA website once the information has reached a level of consensus. ... [Information of the supplier]
Grasses feed the world and grasslands cover 20-40% of the planet. The grass family is one of the largest families of flowering plants with around 12,000 species. Grasses are more important for mankind than any other group of plants. Grasses have small flowering parts and complex floral morphology which is usually studied by dedicated specialists. Derek Clayton has been building a classification system for the grass family during his 56 years at Kew Gardens. He wrote the classic account Genera Graminum and went on to invent the world’s first electronic Flora and e-taxonomic system, GrassBase. GrassBase is a unique dataset of structured trait data maintained in the DELTA software system which is not supported on modern computers. Can GrassBase contribute to modern analyses and will it have use for future generations? How can grass trait data be mobilised? What are the possible connections between the study of grass diversity and other scientific disciplines? This meeting will bring together the global community of grass taxonomists to say thank you to Derek. The program will begin by exploring history and Gren Lucas, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, followed by Steve Renvoize, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, will speak about Derek’s work. Rob Soreng from the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, will describe the recent advances in grass systematics and his work on the Catalogue of New World Grasses. Elizabeth Kellogg from the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Missouri, will introduce Poaceae crop genomics and outline how the study of crops has helped us understand grass evolution. During the second part of the meeting we will explore the research uses of grass trait data and the significance of grass diversity for research into ecology, C4 photosynthesis, and breeding better crops. Confirmed speakers include Professor Peter Linder, University of Zurich, and Professor Colin Osborne, University of Sheffield. The meeting will conclude with presentations on descriptive taxonomic systems online and Maria Vorontsova, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, will lead a discussion about the future for GrassBase. ... [Information of the supplier]
